Brian's Blog

I've mentioned at least once in the past that I've been using Insipid to keep track of my bookmarks. It's been some time since I installed it so just out of curiosity I checked and found a new version was available. The new version didn't make Insipid work that much different from what I could see however it did let me use the cool Firefox extension linked to from the Insipid site. Yes, I did try it with my older install but it didn't work. For the extension I turned off the full toolbar it adds because I think it takes up way to much screen real estate, but there is a all-in-one button you can add to another toolbar that gives you access to nearly all of the function of the full toolbar anyway. The thing I like best about it in the short time I've been playing with it is that is lets you view a tag cloud which Insipid doesn't do naively yet plus it can query del.icio.us for popular tags and suggest them when you are posting a new URL. Also, the tag completion part is kind of nice too. Pretty cool stuff.

Something else I did today to was to get screen to do certain things automatically on start up. I've known it could do this for some time but have just been lazy in doing it. It's kind of nice just typing "screen" and then each thing I normally run just starts in it's own screen. I even went so far as to setup irssi to auto join a couple of channels that I'm in nearly all the time when I use irc. I know, that isn't a screen thing, but still it's useful. Oh, and I found a modification to .screenrc that puts a nice status bar at the bottom of screen so I can see what screens are open along with the time and date.

Something else that's been on my mind too is perhaps switching blogging software. I've really enjoyed using nanoblogger. It's been a great experience using it, but as Linc from my local LUG pointed out, after enough posts it takes a long time to generate your blog. Now, I know a newer version of nanoblogger is out but I'm not sure if I want to go through the hoops of re-modifying every single template I've modified in this version. It's really not all that hard. It's just very time consuming. At this point it's taking about 5 minutes to create a new post. I've been thinking of trying out wordpress. It seems to be a fairly popular blogging software so I'm hoping it has a good number of plug-ins and other support.